This year Nyepi Day fell on March 16^th. It is a day in the Balinese Hindu culture where the island is silent and the people fast and meditate. It’s a day of self reflection. From 6:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. the next day the whole island of Bali comes to a sudden halt. Nobody is allowed to be on the streets as special officials monitor and enforce people to stay in their homes and keep silent. Everyone is restricted from work, lighting fires, using electricity, traveling, talking, any kind of self entertainment, and for some, not eating anything at all.

Nyepi is predominately a Hindu holiday, but other people who live in Bali or visit the island observe this day of silent too. They may not believe in what the day is all about, but they participate out of respect for the Hindus on the island.

For people who spent their holidays in Bali during Nyepi and did not wish to participate in keeping the day for self reflection, they were taken in consideration. They were allowed to watch television and enjoy all the amenities of their hotel or Bali villa, but they were not permitted to be out on the streets or on the beach. They had to stay in their hotels or villa in Bali. Even all the busy touristic areas that are usually jam packed with people such as Seminyak, Kuta, and Ubud became total ghost towns.

During this day of silence, no airplanes were allowed to land or take off at the Denpasar International Airport, as it was completely shut down for 24 hours. Although no one was allowed on the streets, they made special exceptions for people to be transported to the hospital for any type of serious emergencies such as women who were in labor and life threatening causes. Planes were only granted special permission to leave Bali for people who had serious traumatic injuries, which needed special attention to be flown out of the island. The only people that were allowed on the streets were what they call in Bali the Pecalang, which are security guards and police who enforce the prohibition rules.

The day after Nyepi is called Ngembak Geni. Slowly everything came back to normal, as the streets were busy again. There were many ceremonies that were performed around the island and people celebrated for accomplishing a day of total self reflection and meditation. The Balinese Hindus repented and forgave each other for all the wrong they have committed. It surely was a very festive day in Bali, Indonesia.

Many tourists who come to Indonesia during their holidays enjoy what the fascinating underwater world has to offer! Bali and it’s surrounding islands has one of the most colorful ocean floors in the world with bright corals, tropical fish, other interesting sea creatures, and ship wrecks. The underwater seabed is full of surprises!

The traditional way of ocean diving is a popular way of exploring the sea floor, but now more people are looking into a new revolutionary way of discovering the depths of the ocean. Bali Marine Walk Tours uses an open-ended helmet that allows people to be fully submerged underwater without getting their head wet. The helmet is placed over the head and is connected by air hoses to scuba tanks. It is specially fabricated with a defogging system to avoid the helmet from fogging up.  It also has a built in vent located in the back of the helmet to allow unnecessary air in the compartment to be released. The great thing about using the underwater helmet when diving is that it’s very comfortable to use and water never touches the face. You can breathe normally underwater with no attachments to your mouth or nose. Guests don’t have to worry about make-up smearing off their faces and glasses and contact lenses can be worn at all times.

Bali Marine Walk Tours is a private company that shuttles groups of people to Nusa Lembongan to explore the ocean floor. It is only a quick 30-minute excursion to the island with the Fast Boat from Marine Walk. When the guests arrive the professional dive team will assist each person in putting on their helmet. When it is securely fastened on their heads, they will then use the ladder on the side of the boat to descend down to start their underwater sea adventure. Guests will stay underwater for 15 minutes at a time. They will be amazed with the marine life and will also be given the opportunity to feed the fish in the water.

Guests are encouraged to bring sunscreen, swimsuit, sandals, an extra pair of clothing, and an underwater camera that be used in depths of 8 meters or more. People who are pregnant, on medications, and have a history of lung, heart, asthma, and respiratory problems are not allowed to dive. People who are physically handicapped, but can use both their hands can participate in the marine walk.

Our Company, Pambali, can arrange Bali villa accommodations and also villa/hotel transfers to and from Sanur. Contact us at info@pambali.com for more information.

Traditional herbal medicine.

For long time ago Balinese people keep their tradition and culture, where the entire individual are preserve to keep their tradition so they will not forgot for their root where their came from. From culture and tradition born many kind of art like dance, painting, wood craved, and many others, which all that is came from the nature mind which gets the natural inspiration from the almighty god Ida Sang Hyang Widi Wasa.

Commonly the Balinese people can’t separate from the nature, according to the philosophies Tri Hita Karana (three concept in balance of harmony, to create the peaceful and happiness). Which tell about Parhyangan (one of the three concept related to the god), Pawongan (this concept is required to keep the harmony and balance between human to human), Palemahan (Pelemahan in Tri Hita Karana is all aspect related to the environment) so when this three concept are in Balance of Harmony so there is a happiness. One of those concept are related to the nature, which tell that Balinese people they are a part from the nature, so when the feel sick naturally they use all thing which provide by the nature like roof of the tree, leaf, grass this great medicine method was found in bali prehistoric and now we call it traditional herbal medicine.

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Health is Important Thing.

Health is very important thing in human life, where being health is all the human dreams in the world. There a some slogan that related to the health for the example “healthy is a expensive thing” this slogan saying the true where people being healthy is expensive is means that when people get any kind of diseases it will need more money, time and must buying some of expensive medicine to bring back their healthy as well as possible.

It is more difficult and need more time and money to curing than to keep our body being healthy. Healthy is number one in human life, with health we can do our daily activates, like work, study, having fun and get sociality with our loving friends, family and even though with someone that we love.

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Experimental art Exhibition

at Warung Nasi Gianyar

To day there are Experimental art exhibition which present at Warung nasi in Ubud. There are six young actor which in joined together in the group which called them self “Lingkar”. They do the art exhibition art at warung art Jl. Nyuh Kuning Pengosekan Ubud which presented from today 31 October until 14 November 2008 which take the theme “Homo Luden” which can be explained as the playing creature which play we can having fun. The Lingkar commodity is consist of the graduated student from ISI Yogyakarta they are: I Wayan Sudarna Putra (Nano), I Wayan Wirawan (Yancut), I Gede Suanda (Sayur), Dewa Jodi Saputra (Jo), I Putu Suardana (Vije) dan I Kadek Suadnyana (Pektif).

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Penjor and the Balinese traditional ceremonial.

Bali Island is the unique place where the tradition and the culture are still keeping and holding thigh. In bali peoples are still keep they own unique tradition which that the information are spread to all over the word. Many places in Bali are presented beautiful views with field yard terraces. Beside that the Balinese people daily activity life can’t separated from the culture and the tradition which that we can see from they of Balinese people say they thanks to the almighty god Ida Sang Hyang Widi Wasa.

In every single way of the Balinese life is always connected to the tradition and culture. Which the tradition they applied In Tradition ceremonial Like Upakara Yadnya, this is the ceremonial implementation of the culture and tradition for Balinese people. In Upakara there are many of complement that are used like Banten, Sampian, and Penjor which all of those complement are the implementation of god symbol.

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The Bali traditional culture

The Indonesian is a reach archipelago which unfolding a million island from Sabang until Merueke. There spread out a different kind traditional culture along those hundred lands which each of them has their own unique characteristic, in culture, tradition, traditional clothes and many others. Indonesian is an archipelago nation where each of them has they own unique.

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Mapantigan Balinese art ceremonial championship.

Balinese island is a rich land with many unique traditional cultures, the art, the beautiful places, the Balinese people and many other. If we talk about Bali there hundred think that can be discussed about it. Bali is the heart of Indonesian tourism object where Bali is the most place to visited. There so many thing that we can learn and know about Bali by directly visited come to Bali.

The Balinese art is all ready know to all over the world. There many kind of the art in Bali. Even now the oldies Balinese art which almost die and rareness, like the oldies traditional dance, ancient ceremonial, traditional game, oldest art and many oldies traditional are begin to awakening with learning those oldies art from the master, introduce it by performance that oldies in hotel even in villas, Pam bali offering some luxury villas near by the filed yard with spectacular point of views like in Umalas, Canggu, seminyak.

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Asta Kosala-Kosali is the basically

principle concept for Balinese architecture.

The Balinese people believe that all their daily life active is connecting to the Yadnya and all the religious ceremonial which is implementation their sacrifice or Bakthi to the god Ida Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa (the balinese Hindu god), they belive if they don’t do the ceremonial so they will take the karma pahala. Karma phala is result that what we have done in the pass goodness and badness, basically the Hindu concept is commences to its follower to make good behavior respect, help and loving each other, (well I thing all the religious in the world has good purpose) which base on Trikaya Parisuda which consist of manacika good thinking, wacika good speaking, kayika good behavior this all concept are implementation in symbol in daily Balinese activity.

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Gambelan Angklung the traditional

Balinese musical instrument

Bali is famous in every single art and culture to all over the world, many people came to bali to enjoy and watch the traditional, art, and culture performance. One of the Balinese art is seni gambelan in English “traditional musical instrument” just like each country in all over the world has their own traditional musical instrument like; Malaysia has melayu instrument, china has kecapi with oriental music instrument, USA has Benjo with the country music and many other. In Bali there are so many kinds of traditional musical instrument which know familiar as Gambelan.

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